I have left the following comment on the blog...

"However, the GPL means that people cannot realistically use SAGE in a
commercial tool, either as a platform/runtime, or as an embedded
component."

What it is the justification for this claim? Why wouldn't the GPL
allow one to use SAGE as a "commercial tool"?
I think that a GPL program like Sage might well have commercial
applications. For instance: you could use Sage for modelling an
industrial process. There is nothing in the GPL against that.

Pablo

On 7/14/09, Martin Albrecht <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Sage and Numpy/Scipy are mentioned in an ongoing debate about licenses (GPL
> vs. BSD) on various blogs.
>
> cf. http://pwang.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/in-defense-of-bsd-licenses/
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
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